You know how they say that someone’s handwriting tells you something about them? Well, how about how someone writes out their phone number? I was just going through and updating my contacts, some of whom are on Facebook, and I realized how many different ways there are to write a phone number:

This is how I write phone numbers, the “proper” method as I like to call it:(555) 123-4567

The no separation method:5551234567

The spaces for separation method:555 123 4567

The all dashes method:555-123-4567

The periods method:555.123.4567

And not to confuse things, but don’t forget those that add the 1 before the area code (and not to mention people outside of the US who have a whole slew of numbers we don’t want to mess with).